What do think of the following? Do you take it seriously? Would Judaism accept it?
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Based on the Ramban quoted above, the Kabbalists explain that just as Mazal Elyon affects Mazal Tachton, i.e. the cosmos, so Olam HaMishpat (judgment) affects Mazal Tachton. This means increasing one’s spiritual merit can improve one’s mazal. Here are two examples of mazal being changed because of merit:

From Shabbat 156, “There is no mazal for Israel” (meaning Jews can rise above mazal through mitzvot) it seems that mazal can be changed through increasing merit. In addition, mazal can be modified and utilized for good: